rant · moment 12 of 17
The Closeted Finance Guy Blog Romance
from 147 - Love Tim (with Kevin Tienken) · #147
6 min
Tim tells a long story about corresponding with an anonymous closeted finance-world blogger in his youth, falling for the persona, and never finding out what happened to him.
- Tim starts corresponding with a closeted finance guy from an Ivy League school who wrote a blog about being gay in finance.
- He never saw a picture of the finance guy, so he imagined what he looked like while they emailed back and forth.
- Tim invited the finance guy to comedy shows, but he never showed up.
- One day Tim's email to the finance guy bounced and the correspondence ended abruptly.
- The finance guy's email address was "blurred" because he said his life was a blur, and he wrote detailed stories about hookups and being closeted at work.
- Tim never knew the finance guy as a person, only online, and still wonders what happened to him.
- A friend suggested the finance guy could have been 70 years old or even Tim's father, which freaked him out.
- Tim believes the finance guy was probably real—a young closeted finance worker figuring himself out—despite having no proof.
- Tim gave the finance guy his real name and wonders if that guy ever thinks about him too.
- Tim makes a bizarre plea to the finance guy, asking him to piss in his mouth as a thank you for their months of email correspondence.
- Tim frames it as the finance guy giving back to the community in appreciation for their connection.